The 2015 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was held from Thursday, September 10, 2015 (date of arrival) to Tuesday, September 15, 2015 (date of departure), in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.
Those interested in attending future meetings should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.
Media for the talks listed below can be found at the PFS 2015 Youtube playlist. Audio is available at the Property and Freedom Podcast.
The finalized list of speakers and topics for the 2015 meeting follows below, with links to the video of the speeches:
Final Program Schedule
Thursday, September 10 arrivals and registration
Reception and dinner (pool area) 19:30-23:00
Friday, September 11
8:00-10:00 Breakfast
10:30 Program begins (Hotel Conference Center)
10:30-10:45 Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Welcome and Introductions
10:45-12:15 Roundtable Discussion and Q & A: Memories: Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) as Mentor and Teacher, Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Thomas DiLorenzo (USA), Doug French (USA), Lee Iglody (USA)
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Thomas DiLorenzo (USA), On American Exceptionalism
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-15:45 Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), The Lebanon – A Switzerland of the Near East?
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 DiLorenzo, Taghizadegan, Gabb, Hoppe, Discussion on Current Affairs, Q & A
16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-17:30 Hans-Hermann Hoppe & Gülcin Imre Hoppe, 2006–2015: PFS, Now and Then
17:30-18:00 Sean Gabb (England), 10 Years of PFS
19:30-22:30 Dinner and Turkish Night at the Hotel
Saturday, September 12
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00-10:30 Deanna Forbush (USA), America’s Violent Labor Unions
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Enrico Colombatto (Italy), Università degli Studi di Torino, Mario Draghi and his Friends (no video)
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30:12:00 Andrew Shuen (Lion Rock, Hong Kong), China, the US, the Renminbi, the $, and Hong Kong
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Thorsten Polleit (Germany), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Inflation
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-15:45 Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), The Culture of Inflation
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 Forbush, Colombatto, Shuen, Polleit, Huelsmann, Discussion, Q&A
17:30-17:50 Group Photo in Hotel Lobby
18:00 Departure from the hotel lobby to the fishing village of Yalikavak
18:30-22:00 Reception and Dinner at the beach
Sunday, September 13
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00-10:30 Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England), Murderers I Knew
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Frank Van Dun (Belgium), On the Philosophical Foundations of Libertarianism
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 David Dürr (Switzerland), Private Law Society: Answering some of the “Difficult” Questions
13:00-14:15 Lunch
15:00-15:30 Stephan Kinsella (USA), On Life without Patents and Copyright: Or, But Who Would Pick The Cotton?
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:45 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy, De-Civilization, and Counterculture
16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 Hoppe, Dürr, Kinsella, van Dun, Daniels, Discussion, Q&A
18:00-18:15 Coffee Break
18:15-18:30 Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Concluding Remarks and Announcements
20:00-23:00 Gala Reception, Dinner, and Entertainment at the Hote
Monday, September 14
8:00-9:30 Breakfast
10:00 Meet in the Hotel Lobby. Walk to the Marina
10:30-17:00 Guelet Boat Excursion. Lunch on the Boat. Swimming.
19:00-23:00 Dinner and Entertainment at the Hotel
Tuesday, September 15 Departure
For conference attendees staying through Tuesday, a day-trip to Ephesus and the last residence of the Virgin Mary can be arranged. Cost per person is about 60 Euro (which includes transportation, entrance fees, professional guide, plus lunch). Please indicate as soon as possibe if you are interested in such an excursion. There will be a list made available for this purpose at the hotel reception desk.
The same arrangement can be made also for Monday, September 14, as an alternative to the Boat Excursion.
Other trips can be arranged by the hotel as well.
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Speakers and topics for the 2014 Annual Meeting may be found here. Information on previous meetings may be found here.
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The Property and Freedom Society (Facebook page) was established in May, 2006 at the initiative of world-renowned libertarian philosopher and Austrian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe. The Inaugural Meeting and subsequent annual meetings have been held at the Hotel Karia Princess in Bodrum, Turkey. Programmes and video of previous presentations are available here. The PFS is an international society for the promotion of “Austro-Libertarianism,” the economic and social philosophy most prominently represented during the 20th century by the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and his leading American student Murray N. Rothbard, and tying back to the 19th century French economists Frederic Bastiat and Gustave de Molinari. As such, the PFS stands for an uncompromising intellectual radicalism: for justly acquired private property, freedom of contract, freedom of association—which logically implies the right to not associate with, or to discriminate against—anyone in one’s personal and business relations—and unconditional free trade. It condemns imperialism and militarism and their fomenters, and champions peace. In the words of Professor Hoppe in 2010, at the Fifth Annual Meeting:
After the first meeting, 5 years ago, here at the Karia Princess, my plan became more specific still. Inspired by the charm of the place and its beautiful garden, I decided to adopt the model of a salon for the Property And Freedom Society and its meetings. The dictionary defines a salon as “a gathering of intellectual, social, political, and cultural elites under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation.” Take the “political” out of this definition—and there you have it what I have tried to accomplish for the last few years, together with Gülcin, my wife and fellow Misesian, without whose support none of this would be possible: to be hostess and host to a grand and extended annual salon, and to make it, with your help, the most attractive and illustrious salon there is. [Video here and streamed below]
For further information, see:
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- PFS, History and Principles
- Hoppe, The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years, The Libertarian Standard (June 10, 2010)
- Hoppe, The Role of the Property and Freedom Society in a Crazy World (May 21, 2009, Property and Freedom Society 2009 Annual Meeting Introductory Speech, Bodrum, Turkey)
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe & Gulcin Imre Hoppe, 2006–2015: PFS, Now and Then
- Sean Gabb, 10 Years of PFS
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PFS 2010 – Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Welcoming Remarks. The PFS – After Five Years
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For further information about the PFS and its previous meetings, see the Press & Offsite Material page, and various articles such as:
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- Kinsella, “Property, Freedom, and Defiance: The PFS Returns” (Oct. 1, 2021)
- Sean Gabb: The Inaugural Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: An Incidental Record, Free Life Commentary, Issue Number 148 (June 14 2006)
- Doug French: Hoppean Property and Freedom, LewRockwell.com (June 21st 2006)
- Rahim Taghizadegan: Report on the second PFS conference in Bodrum [local copy], liberty.li (June 4th 2007; in German)
- Stephan Kinsella: “Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report,” The Libertarian Standard (June 16, 2010)
- Sean Gabb: “Reflections on the 2010 Conference of the Property and Freedom Society,” Free Life Commentary, Issue Number 194 (June 17, 2010)
- Andy Duncan: “Outside the Asylum: Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey, 2011,” Cobden Centre (June 8, 2011; republished as “A Few Days outside the Asylum,” Mises Daily, June 15, 2011)
- Sean Gabb: “The Third Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, May 2008: A Brief Record,” Free Life Commentary No. 173 (July 4, 2008)
- Sean Ring: The Chief Event (Oct. 4, 2012)
- Andy Duncan: Inside the conspiracy: Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey, 2012 (Oct. 3, 2012)
- Doug French on PFS 2012: The World’s Greatest Haircut (Oct. 2, 2012)
- Jeff Tucker on PFS 2012: The Center of the Conspiracy (Sep. 29, 2012)
- X: The Only Conference Worth Attending: A Personal Account of the 11th Conference of the Property & Freedom Society (Sept. 10, 2016)
- Gabb: Notes from the Eleventh [2016] Conference of the Property and Freedom Society (Sept. 7, 2016)
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